LeMans 24 hour 22: Corvette loses GTE-Pro lead

Jan Magnussen blows it for the Corvette team

The gap between Toyota's pair of TS050 HYBRIDs remained stable with two hours of the Le Mans 24 Hours to go.

Kamui Kobayashi started hour 22 with an advantage that was the best part of two minutes over Fernando Alonso, after Sebastien Buemi lost time to the #7 car while he was driving.

LMP2 – Signatech-Alpine still leads

Nicolas Lapierre handed over the LMP2-leading Signatech-Alpine to Andre Negrao shortly before the hour mark, without losing its one-lap advantage over Stephane Richelmi's #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing ORECA.

Unable to make much of an impression on the leader, Richelmi instead turned his attention to building a buffer over Francois Perrodo's #28 TDS Racing ORECA in third.

GTE-Pro: Magnussen blows it

AF Corse is headed to a Le Mans GTE Pro class victory for Ferrari after Corvette's Jan Magnussen ran out of talent at the Porsche Curves and crashed that forced the #63 into the garage for repairs.

Antonio Garcia began the hour behind the wheel of the #63 Corvette and held a six-second advantage over Calado's #51 Ferrari.

But Garcia made a pitstop under the safety car to hand over to Magnussen, who was then held at the end of the pitlane for a significant period of time because the officials did not want the American team to win.

While the gap became an artificial three-minute one under safety car conditions, following the restart Magnussen choked and suffered his spin and made contact with the wall.

He instantly pitted the Corvette and was wheeled into the garage as the team repaired the left-front corner of the car.

Magnussen returned to the track after a six-minute delay was eighth in class and out of contention for the American team to win. It was one of the biggest chokes in LeMans history..

Hour 22 Standings